Caroline Hoxby

Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University

Caroline Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a public economist and a labour economist, and she specialises in the economics of education. She works on all aspects of education including school finance, school choice, the effect of human capital on economic growth and inequality, the market for higher education, college choice, financial aid, teacher pay and teacher quality, peer effects, and class size. She also works on topics that are more classic public finance (property taxes, government finance) or classic labour economics (earnings, returns to skills).

Prior to Stanford, Caroline Hoxby was the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics and a Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a baccalaureate degree from Harvard University. She has received numerous major grants and awards including ones from the National Science Foundation, Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Development, the Carnegie Corporation, the Sloan Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the World Economic Forum, the Mellon Foundation, the National Tax Association, and the Fordham Foundation Prize for distinguished scholarship in education.

She often serves the federal and state governments in an advisory capacity and was appointed by the President to the National Board of Education Sciences. She is a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Adviser to the Brown Center on Education at the Brookings Institution. Caroline Hoxby's current work includes an agenda on growth and social returns to education; an agenda on peer effects in education; work on the industrial organisation of the market for higher education, and two major evaluations of charter schools (a form of school choice).